The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writingspeaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.
Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!
The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.
Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?
All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.
Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.
